For the eighth year, The Leaf-Chronicle Reader's Choice Awards will recognize Clarksville's favorites in more than 100 categories from Dessert Shops to Dentists, from Places to Walk to New Car Dealerships.

Readers' Choice, which began in 2010, is a fully free and fully local contest that allows online voters to select winners in various categories.

It includes the coveted Favorite Social Service Agency award, which recognizes Clarksville's top nonprofit organizations. Previous winners include:

2012: Montgomery County Friends of the Shelter

2013: Manna Cafe Ministries

2014: Buddy Ball Special Needs Athletic League

2015: L.E.A.P.

2016: Urban Ministries SafeHouse

2017: Imagination Library

The charitable organization chosen by readers will receive a $5,000 grant plus a community support initiative from The Leaf-Chronicle. Agencies are ineligible to win twice in five years, so MCFOTS and Manna Cafe are back on the table.

The contest has two stages: nominations and then voting.

Nominations: Starting today (Tuesday), you can go online to ReadersChoiceClarksville.com and nominate your favorites in dozens of categories. If your favorite is already there, you don't need to do anything — the nomination is in. If you don't see your favorite listed, just add it to the list. (Please don't repeat a nomination for someone already listed.) Nominations continue through Wednesday, May 30, and no new nominations can be accepted after that.

Voting: Once we've had a chance to clean up the nominations, we'll open the site for voting. That begins Monday, June 4, and continues through Saturday, June 30. You can vote as often as you want and in as many categories as you want.